Network Bauhaus. Bauhaus repercussions in Spain through specialized periodicals

Abstract

Shortly after the foundation of the Bauhaus school in Weimar, several architects who would form the key generation of the import of the European avant-garde were titled in Madrid. García Mercadal, Lacasa, Colás and Sánchez Arcas were some of the protagonists of trips, academic stays, professional collaboration and international meetings, that reversed information and openness for Spanish architecture. Among them the visit to the successive Bauhaus headquarters is repeated, in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin. These experiences left marks on archi tecture periodicals; whose propaganda vocation had a reference in the bauhaus magazine for the extension of the modern myth. Architecture, Anta, La Gaceta Literaria, APAA, Viviendas, RE-CO, Art, Art, AC, D’Ací i d’Allá and gaceta de arte are some samples of the journalistic warp around new architecture. Names like Behne, Gropius, Linder, van Doesburg, Hilberseimer and Meyer appear on their pages and confirm the transfer of content and formats back and forth between the German school, its magazine and the Spanish environment. Interferences that still admit sharpness in the historiographic approach of ambivalence, lacking a center, between the utopian and the transformative avant-garde, to decode the tradition of Modern.